Course descriptions
400 Twentieth Century Approaches to History
This course focuses on twentieth century historical writing, emphasizing
changing interpretive paradigms and innovative methodologies.
It examines the rise of social history and then cultural history as
the dominant historical genres and the new focus on previously ignored
subjects like gender and sexuality. In so doing, it also explores
the impact on historians of theories and methodologies from other
fields, especially the social sciences and literary criticism.
This course should be taken early in the student's program. (Staff)
410 Topics:
Special topics or new approaches of current interest
to the instructor.
Medieval and Renaissance
486 Ancient Rome: Family and Community, 1-600 A.D.
This course explores how Roman families and communities changed between
the 1st century B.C. and 6th century A.D. The goal is to introduce
graduate students to some of the topics and methods of social history
in a pre-modern context. No knowledge of the ancient languages is
necessary.(Dossey)
488 Topics in Medieval History:Variable Title
Topics and descriptions vary according to interest of the instructor,
such as medieval monasticism, from the early apostolic communities
to the mendicant orders.
(Gross-Diaz, Rosenwein)
523 Seminar in Medieval History: Variable Title
Early Modern Europe
421 Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Germany, 1517-1648
This course will explore Luther and Lutheranism; the Reformation in
south Germany; Charles V; the Religious Peace; the Council of Trent;
militant Calvinism vs. revived Catholicism; Maximilian of Bavaria;
the Counter-Reformation Prince; the crisis in the Habsburg lands;
the Thirty Years War; the impact of Reformation and Counter-Reformation
on German life and history.(Bireley)
531 Topics in 16th and 17th Century Europe
This seminar will deal with the transition from late-Medieval to Counter-Reformation
Catholicism; that is, with the development of Catholicism from roughly
1400 to 1700, with an emphasis on the second half of the period.(Bireley)
Modern Europe
433 Modern European Nations
This course will analyze selected topics in the political, international,
social, economic, and cultural history of particular European Nations
from the late eighteenth century to the present. (Staff)
436 Topics in European History
This course will explore major themes of European society and politics
up to the Second World War, as well as intellectual responses to it.
Possible issues include resistance to modernization, World War I,
interwar diplomacy, Fascism, Great Depression, Nazism, Spanish Civil
War, origins of World War II. (Staff)
441 Women's and Gender History: Europe
This course explores the literature of women and gender in European
history. The chronological focus may vary with the instructor
(Modern Europe, British, etc.).
(Moylan, Kaufman)
533 Seminar in Modern European History
A variable topics course in which selected political, intelluctual,
religious, social, and economic problems from the late seventeenth
century to the present are considered. (Staff)
Britain and Ireland
419 English Social History: 1500-1750
This is an introduction to the early modern English social and cultural
history under the Tudors and Stuarts.(Bucholz)
425 England or Ireland, 1800 to the Present
This variable topics course will explore some of the major themes
in either modern English or Irish history. Topics such as economic,
demographic, social, and cultural change and the political response
to these changes in England or Ireland will be considered.(Moylan,
Nolan)
525 Research Seminar in Modern Ireland
This research seminar will explore topics in the social and economic
history of nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland.(Nolan)
549 Seminar in British History 1760-1914
Research on selected topics in British history will be studied. The
seminar is normally conducted on a particular subject or on a particular
period between 1760-1914.(Moylan)
Asia
467 East Asia and the West
This course examines points of interaction between the West and East
Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Discussion includes
issues of intellectual, political, social, and cultural history.(Allee,
Harrington)
472 Topics in Modern Japanese History
This course examines key issues in Japan's modern history. Posible
topics include modernization, restoration or revolution, the emperor,
imperialism, war, and occupation.(Harrington)
478 Problems in Twentieth-Century Chinese History
This course will focus on one of the central problems in the history
of twentieth-century china. Possible topics include reform movements,
revolution, peasants and village life, and state-society relations.(Allee)
United States History
442 Women's and Gender History: U.S.
This course explores the literature on women and gender in United
States history with attention to theoretical issues, a broad chronological
scope, and cultural diversity. (Erenberg,
Gilfoyle, Hirsch)
450 Nineteenth Century U.S. History
This course will review the historiography of the most important topics
in nineteenth century American history, including market expansion
and social development, slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction,
and industrialization. (Karamanski,
Platt, Gilfoyle)
451 History of the American West
This class will review the important historiography of western and
frontier history from the late 1980s and 1990s. Although including
books that deal with the full range of frontier history, from 1500
to the 20th century and from New England to California, the course
will focus somewhat on the Trans-Appalachian area. Among the
sub-themes which will be addressed will be American Indian history,
Women's history, and environmental history. (Karamanski)
453 The Civil War and Reconstruction: 1850-1877
Readings and discussion on this pivotal area. Focusing on the central
theme of race relations, the course will examine the nature of plantation
society, the emergence of radical abolitionism, the social and intellectual
impacts of the War, and the reconstruction of American politics and
society after the conflict. What historians have said about the period
and the methods they have used to study it will be stressed.(Platt)
455 Immigration and Ethnicity
Through readings on ethnicity and immigration, students will become
familiar with important literature in the field. Extensive discussion
will develop abilities to exchange ideas and evaluate significant
historical works.(Galush)
458 U.S. Social and Intellectual History since 1865
This course will deal with problems in American cultural, social,
intellectual, and institutional history, largely outside the political
realm. The emphasis will vary.(Erenberg,
Gilfoyle)
460 U.S. Urban Cultural and Social History
This courses focuses on significant issues in the development of Urban
America. Attention will be given to economic development, industrialization,
crime and policing, music and entertainment, race and ethnicity, as
well as the role of religion in urban social and cultural life. The
ways in which certain cities developed into cultural capitals will
also be explored. This is the basic course for students who wish to
take a concentration in U.S. Urban Social and Cultural History.
(Staff)
461 Twentieth Century America
This course focuses on major historiographical questions reflecting
the diversity of inquiry in the field of twentieth century U.S. history,
including political, diplomatic, social, cultural, and economic studies.(Hirsch,
Pfeffer)
492 Local History
This course will examine the nature and practice of local history
and explore the various methods and approaches central to local history
research. The course has two objectives: (1) to introduce students
to the literature on local history and (2) to conduct research on
a local history topic, with topical areas varying from year-to-year.
(Mooney-Melvin)
554 Pre-Civil War Period, 1829-1865
Using available primary sources, students will study aspects of pioneer
settlement; the various surveys and exploratory expeditions of the
period under federal and state sponsorship; and, if warranted, the
final phases of indian removal from the midwest.(Karamanski)
555 U.S. Social and Intellectual History
This course includes a spectrum of interests, from training in the
research of writing the "history of the inarticulate" (the "new" social
history) at one end, to the history of ideas and "high culture" (intellectual
history) at the other. The focus of the course in a given semester
depends upon the research interests of the instructor. The finished
product is a paper on an original historical topic. The student will
move through all of the steps in such a production, from the selection
of a topic to a final draft. (Staff)
557 Studies in American Expansion
The frontier theory and its historiography; the pattern of the westward
movement; transportation, urbanization, and economic growth; land,
labor, and immigration; territorial expansion and its political problems.(Karamanski)
558 Studies in American Cultural History
Research seminar using primary sources in American cultural, social,
technological, intellectual and institutional history. The emphasis
will be on the city but will vary according to the instructor.(Erenberg,
Gilfoyle, Platt, Hirsch)
559 The Ethnic Experience
The course will focus on original research on topics in immigration
history selected by students. Common discussion of techniques of investigation
will accompany and enhance the experience of individual research in
primary sources.(Galush)
583 Quantitative Methods in Social History
This course is an introduction to the use of social science theory
and quantitative methodology in social history. It includes hands-on
instruction in computer database and statistical analysis programs,
and has an individual research component.(Hirsch)
Women's and Gender History
441 Women's and Gender History: Europe
This course explores the literature of women and gender in European
history. The chronological focus may vary with the instructor
(Modern Europe, British, etc.). (Moylan,
Kaufman)
442 Women's and Gender History: U.S.
This course explores the literature on women and gender in United
States history with attention to theoretical issues, a broad chronological
scope, and cultural diversity. (Erenberg,
Gilfoyle, Hirsch)
561 Seminar: Women's and Gender History
This seminar focuses on the use of gender as a category of analysis
in history, and is particularly appropriate for those who have taken
courses in Women's and Gender History or Women's Studies. Students
will produce a major research paper; they may choose any topic relevant
to issues of gender or women for any time period or society, as long
as adequate primary sources are available. (Staff)
Public History
479 Public History Media
An introduction to the use of public media in the presentation of
history programs. Through a series of assignments, the class will
explore the practical problems involved in the preparation of various
media projects, such as kiosk-type exhibits, radio programs, public
conferences, video documentaries, museum type exhibits, interactive
computer programs, and street-level outreach projects. For the purposes
of this course, the class will constitute itself as a historical consultant
company and work as a group. The final product of each assignment
will be a full-blown proposal appropriate for each type of media project. (Staff)
480 Public History: Method and Theory
This course will survey the development of the field of public history
with special attention given to the history, philosophy, and purposes
of historical agencies; archives; museum organization and operation;
cultural resource management; the involvement of historians in local,
state, and federal government; the relationship between historians
and the business community; and historians and public programming.
The professional responsibilities of the historian in dealing with
employment issues, society, and the historical profession will also
be considered.(Karamanski, Mooney-Melvin)
481 Management of Historical Resources
This course will consider the problems of protecting and interpreting
historical and cultural resources. Topics will include: historic preservation,
historical architecture and urban redevelopment, the National Register
of Historic Places, historical archaeology, and the writing of cultural
resource impact statements. Instruction will involve both faculty
and practitioners of public history.(Karamanski)
482 Archives and Records Management
The techniques of selecting, arranging, preserving, and guaranteeing
the security of records of current and historical significance. Problems
of confidentiality will be considered as well as appropriate means
of indexing and retrieval of written documents, machine-readable records,
records and tapes, film and videotape documents. (Staff)
483 Oral History: Method and Practice
This course begins with a review of the various approaches to oral
history and a survey of studies which have depended on it. Students
will be asked to design a group oral history project. After testing
the design and evaluating their initial interviewing efforts, they
will complete the project and interpret the data. Each student will
be expected to complete part of the research report as well as conduct
one or more interviews.(Fife,
Nolan)
487 Management of History Museums
This course is designed to introduce students to the theory and techniques
of history museum management. Topics under discussion include the
problems surrounding artifact collection, conservation, and interpretation;
the role of research in exhibit preparation and public programming;
the ethical dimensions of museum activities; and the theoretical and
practical aspects of history museum administration.(Mooney-Melvin)
581 Practicum in Public History
Practicums provide students with specific exposure to an aspect of
the practice of public history. Practicums are undertaken either under
the direct supervision of Loyola faculty or the joint supervision
of a Loyola faculty member and a cooperating off-campus supervisor.(Mooney-Melvin)
582 Public History Internship
The internship will provide an extended practical experience in the
field of public history. Internships are tailored to fit the needs
of the individual student and the needs of the off-campus agency involved.
As part of their program, all public history students must undertake
an internship either doing public history in the private sector or
with a public agency. The internship is available during any semester
and its timing is related to an individual student's progress in the
program. The number of weeks it will last and hours per week entailed
will vary from experience to experience, although it must run a minimum
of six weeks. Upon successful completion of their internship, students
will earn three hours of credit.(Mooney-Melvin)
498 Dissertation Research
499 Directed Study
595 Thesis Supervision
598 Dissertation Proposal Seminar
599 Directed Primary Research
600 Dissertation Supervision
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